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September 18: Tim Meyer, “Misaligned Lawmaking,” Conference on the Next Generation of International Trade Agreements, Athens, Georgia

September 20: Mike Newton, "The Quartet v. Qatar: CyberAttacks and the Effects of Fake News", From Cyber Attack To Disruptive Measures, The Unprecedented Blockade Against the State of Qatar, 72nd United Nations General Assembly Session, New York

November 17: Christopher Slobogin, Criminal Justice Roundtable, convenor and commentator on Morgan Cloud, "Property is Privacy: Locke and Brandeis in the Twenty-First Century," and five other papers, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee

November 20: Paige Marta Skiba, "Understanding Litigation and Judicial Behavior in a Highly Litigious Country: Evidence from Small Claims Court in Italy,” Law and Economics Workshop, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Spring 2018

January 6: Paige Marta Skiba, “Bankruptcy Reform for Consumers: Issues the Bankruptcy Commission Should Consider”, Association of American Law Schools 112th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California

January 6: Christopher Slobogin, “Problems with the Kids-are-Different Framing of the Court’s Juvenile Cases,” on “Juveniles, Incarceration and the Constitution: A Conversation” panel, AALS Annual Meeting, San Diego, California

January 16: Paige Marta Skiba, Law and Economics Colloquium at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada

January 22: Terry Maroney, “Judicial Emotion: Investigating Its Role in Behavior, Decision-Making, and That Mysterious Thing We Call Temperament,” Berkeley Law, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley, California

January 23: Michael Newton, “The International Criminal Court versus U.S. Interests: Shifting yet Stable?”, University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, Tennessee

March 13: Michael Newton, panelist, "Halabja: Echoes of Genocide in Kurdistan: How can communities in Kurdistan and Iraq halt the cycle of genocide?" The Kurdistan Regional Government Representation in the United States, Newseum, Washington, D.C.

March 16: Daniel Gervais, "Intellectual property as investment asset: A different court making different law," Maastricht University, The Netherlands

March 16: Michael Newton, “Of Dossiers and Due Process: Current Trends at the International Criminal Court,” William and Mary School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia

March 16, 2018: W. Kip Viscusi,“Expanding the Domain of the Value of a Statistical Life,” Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.

May 29: Michael Newton, “Non-International Armed Conflict in the Current Context,” Fugh Symposium, Center for Law and Military Operations (CLAMO) at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School (TJAGLCS), Charlottesville Virginia

June 15: Daniel Gervais, "A new copyright convention: Isn’t time 50 years after Stockholm?" University of Oslo, Norway

July 12-14: Timothy Meyer, “Misaligned Lawmaking in International Trade,” Society of International Economic Law Biennial Conference, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.

Fall 2018

October 24-28: Beverly Moran, Screening of “Bukharin Jews: Memories of a Disappearing Past” at the 19th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania